Author: Steven R. Frady
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Red Shirts and Leather Helmets
Author: Steven R. Frady
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Red Shirt
Author: Lawrence D. Sundberg
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611392373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Henry Lafayette Dodge has long been a familiar name in 19th century American Southwestern history. As one of the earliest and most effective Indian agents to the Navajo, he has been portrayed as a congenial, sympathetic and compassionate advocate for the tribe—a veritable role model. The Navajo knew him as Red Shirt, a man they came to respect, appreciate and trust. Those who knew Dodge admitted, although often grudgingly, that he had unrivaled influence over the tribe. By today’s sensibilities, Henry L. Dodge was hardly a role model. In his youth, he was irresponsible, hot-headed and violent. As an adult, he was sued for assault and battery, land fraud, breach of promises and misuse of public funds. He apparently couldn’t be trusted with money, his own or others’. Finally brought down by scandal, he fled Wisconsin in the dead of night, abandoning his career, his wife and his children, leaving them nearly destitute. How then should history assess him? Honestly: precisely as he was, an ambitious and imperfect man. The honest telling gives a straightforward account of not only Henry L. Dodge, but what became the veritable mythology of the West, from the bawdy old French Missouri river towns to the raucous lead mining districts of southwest Wisconsin, through the slaughter of the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars to the invasion of New Mexico and the chaos of the Indian frontier; it is a gritty personal tale of the true West.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611392373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
Henry Lafayette Dodge has long been a familiar name in 19th century American Southwestern history. As one of the earliest and most effective Indian agents to the Navajo, he has been portrayed as a congenial, sympathetic and compassionate advocate for the tribe—a veritable role model. The Navajo knew him as Red Shirt, a man they came to respect, appreciate and trust. Those who knew Dodge admitted, although often grudgingly, that he had unrivaled influence over the tribe. By today’s sensibilities, Henry L. Dodge was hardly a role model. In his youth, he was irresponsible, hot-headed and violent. As an adult, he was sued for assault and battery, land fraud, breach of promises and misuse of public funds. He apparently couldn’t be trusted with money, his own or others’. Finally brought down by scandal, he fled Wisconsin in the dead of night, abandoning his career, his wife and his children, leaving them nearly destitute. How then should history assess him? Honestly: precisely as he was, an ambitious and imperfect man. The honest telling gives a straightforward account of not only Henry L. Dodge, but what became the veritable mythology of the West, from the bawdy old French Missouri river towns to the raucous lead mining districts of southwest Wisconsin, through the slaughter of the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars to the invasion of New Mexico and the chaos of the Indian frontier; it is a gritty personal tale of the true West.
All the Year Round
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Redshirts
Author: Rudy Bukich
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463423608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Huddle with Rudy into the heart of college football in this true story of a young athlete achieving success against all odds. A story that will be familiar to athletes, coaches and everyone that listens and pursues that inner voice that tells you never to give up.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463423608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Huddle with Rudy into the heart of college football in this true story of a young athlete achieving success against all odds. A story that will be familiar to athletes, coaches and everyone that listens and pursues that inner voice that tells you never to give up.
The Saturday Evening Post
Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
The Roar and the Silence
Author: Ronald M. James
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
All the Year Round
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
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One Hundred Years of Service
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Sardanapalus, King of Assyria
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Sardanapalus, King of Assyria. A tragedy. In five acts ... Adapted for representation by C. Kean
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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